Originally published October 7 2005
Research team examines the nutritional values of breastfeeding
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Pediatricians at the Lis Obstetrics Center at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center now know that long-term breastfeeding results in milk richer in calories than that produced by short-term breastfeeding.
The nutritional value of mother's milk has been found to be much higher during long-term breastfeeding (for more than a year) than when it is only for up to six months.
The percentage of fat in mother's milk during long-term breastfeeding averaged at 11 percent and reached as high as 28%, while breast milk of women who nursed their babies for only several months averaged 7.4% and went as high as 12%.
Not only was the fat level higher, but also the number of calories in milk during long-term nursing -- 880 kilocalories per liter compared to 741 in short-term nursing.
Although some cancer patients blame the development of their tumor on high levels of stress, counterintuitively this has actually been found to help protect against breast cancer.
Stress was defined as tension, nervousness, impatience, anxiety or sleeplessness, but actual physiological stress levels were not measured throughout the study.
In calculating the effects of stress, researchers also adjusted the results for other factors, such as whether they had children or whether they were menopausal, which would have an influence on developing breast cancer.
They did not account for risk factors such as family history of the disease, however.
One explanation for the findings may be that sustained levels of high stress may affect estrogen levels -- which, over time, may have an influence on developing breast cancer.
Despite the findings, the authors warn that stressinduced changes in hormonal balances are not a healthy response, and continued stress may play a damaging part in other illnesses, especially heart disease.
Gleevec, developed by the Novartis pharmaceutical giant, is a well-known but very expensive drug for treating chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), which is relatively rare but still accounts for about a fifth of adults diagnosed with leukemia.
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